TechCrunch report and Ollie documentation · Published 2026-09-04
Ollie: household schedules by text
Ollie connects email, calendars and to-dos to texts or household group chats. Its value depends on organizing those materials and acting on requests; reply allowances, account connections and data handling also shape the experience.
Connect a school notice to household plans
Official documentation describes reading email subjects, senders and content, plus calendar times, locations and attendees, to surface deadlines, conflicts and family briefings. A school activity notice illustrates how an incoming item could be considered alongside household schedules. This explains the intended use, rather than a tested BitShovel workflow.
TechCrunch describes booking, shopping and payments, with users taking over remote browser sessions when login is needed. Its reporter encountered a texting-provider outage that left Ollie unresponsive. Demonstrated actions therefore do not establish reliable completion. The terms permit adults to manage children’s arrangements but prohibit independent use by children.

Read the reply and data rules separately
On September 12, the free plan offered 50 monthly Ollie replies plus 6 daily; the $25 plan offered 150 monthly plus 10 daily, and the $100 plan 1,000 monthly plus 15 daily. Daily allowances are used first, and neither allowance rolls over. A reply from Ollie is the unit; a complex task may require several.
The privacy policy sends message content to providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI for responses. Prohibiting public-model training does not mean no third-party processing. Messages and media may remain for up to 24 months unless earlier deletion is requested. Connected email and calendar data have separate terms: account deletion removes them from core services immediately and from logs and backups within 30 days. These are policy commitments, not verified deletion results. Chinese-language and mainland-China phone support remain untested.
Important additions and corrections
Dates below mark changes to our coverage.
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Added household notices, the reporter’s texting outage, plan reply allowances and data-specific policy commitments.
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Added household use cases, reply-based pricing and data conditions: exclusion from training does not exclude third-party processing.
- Correction ·
Withdrew a value claim not grounded in a specific use case; the source note still needs evidence of practical use.
Sources and notes
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Sources and notes
- Read the originalTechCrunch report and Ollie documentation
- Ollie pricing
- Ollie privacy policy
- Ollie official product page
- Ollie terms
Retained summary and context
Usage is counted by replies from Ollie. At review, the free plan includes 50 monthly replies plus 6 each day; paid plans cost $25 or $100 per month. Daily allowances are used first and do not roll over. A complex request may consume several replies.
Email and calendar connections require authorization, revocable in the provider’s account settings. Group messages are visible to participants. The terms require adult users aged 18 or older; a household group does not establish independent child access.
No public-model training does not mean no third-party processing. Retention depends on the data type. The reporter encountered a texting outage; reliability, deletion, Chinese support and mainland-China phone access remain untested by BitShovel.
Sources and evidence · 2 links
Each link has a purpose and scope. Link counts do not establish independent confirmation; direct support applies only to the statements specified below.
- TechCrunch report and Ollie documentationDirect support
Discovery via the report; features, prices, data handling and eligibility supported by four official pages.
Limits: Vendor statements do not verify reliability, privacy advantages or deletion.
Source timeline
- · Found this reading link via TechCrunch AI.
Collection record
First discovered:
Collection and source publication have distinct dates.
Editorial record
Sources reviewed
· Beijing time (UTC+8)
Added household notices, the reporter’s texting outage, plan reply allowances and data-specific policy commitments. Event, discovery and collection dates remain unchanged.
Sources and full record
This dates our review of the wording and sources, not a project release or product update.
- TechCrunch report; official-source review
- Ollie pricing
- Ollie privacy policy
- Ollie official product page
- Ollie terms
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